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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don’t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
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Audience Dog Face Failure Himself Human Ordinary
Ideas come from everything.
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Art Body Ideas Mind One Liner
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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Deal Reward
I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
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Avoid Best Difficult Fear Myself Quiet
If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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Audience Goodness Ideas Perfection Sound
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Difficult Kill Men Reality
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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Film Food Life Myself Pieces
I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
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Egg Fear Worst
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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Art Audience Body History Myself
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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Be Yourself Feeling Myself Secret
In a good marriage each is the others better half.
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Goodness Love Marriage Relationship
Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
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Fear Goodness Luck Myself Person
A glimpse into the world proves that horror is nothing other than reality.
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Deep Reality World
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
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Character Himself Motivational
I always take the audience into account.
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Account Audience Myself
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
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Affection Alone Death Encouragement Food Live Man

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